July 10, 2003
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Walter Pringle Is Keeping
Watch On Larry “White Guilt” Adelman [Editor’s Error
Corrected - Plus Added Statistics!]
A Reader (One Of Many) Objects To Palestinian
Expulsion; Peter Brimelow Comments.
From: Mitchell Young
[email
him]
So much for the VDARE.COM as a one-issue website. By
publishing Robert Locke's
piece advocating the ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians from the
West Bank, VDARE.COM has made itself vulnerable to
(even more) criticism - over an issue and policy that is
most tenuously related to immigration issue.
I can see the newspaper articles now. Just as every
piece on
Le Pen contains the line, "Le Pen, who once
called the holocaust a
'detail'...," every media report on VDARE.COM
and/or PB will feature, "the site once advocated the
violent expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank"—or
words to that effect.
Nor will Locke's article go down well with those on
the Left who might be persuaded on the immigration
issue, and whose support is necessary if immigration
reform is to become reality. The Palestinian cause
arouses sympathy, both in Europe and in North America,
from some of the very people who might support us in our
drive to stop mass migration.
Maybe VDARE.COM is attempting to mend fences with the
Jewish community, but somehow I don't think the
mini-cons will be beating the drum for immigration
reduction any time soon.
I would like to think the piece was published in an
ironic spirit. After all, Israel is an "immigrant
society," although all the immigrants must be of the
correct religion. The Palestinians' problem is that they
were powerless to stop Jewish immigration in the Ottoman
and Mandate periods and were thus displaced from their
own land.
As an admirer of Leo Strauss, perhaps Locke is sending
an esoteric message to 'Anglos': Take control of
immigration policy from your rulers now, lest someday a
pundit advocate your 'transfer' out of the newly
independent Aztlan.
Peter Brimelow comments: Many readers objected to Robert Locke’s article. (E-mail
him directly if you want to
object some more.)
But we did not publish
it because we agree or disagree with Locke’s position on
Zionism: we published it because it is a
case study of a
nation-state faced with an alien minority. As
Mitchell Young points out, the plight of the Arabs under
the Ottomans and the Mandate is also a case study. Our
single-issue point: immigration has consequences. Ethnic
differences have consequences. Something can be done
about them.
